Jessica Phoenix with Pavarotti and James Atkinson with Gustav Five North American pairs rode dressage this morning in the eventing competition at the Pan American Games and they occupy the top five places on the

We’ll update this post throughout the day as long as the live scores are not working: Buck Davidson and Absolute Liberty (USA)  9:07am CT, 10:07am ET — 48.9James Atkinson and Gustav (CAN)  9:42am CT, 10:42am

As the most experienced rider on the US squad, Buck Davidson’s job is to lead the way for his teammates with three solid phases.  Having a good first ride takes a great deal of the

Boyd Martin on OTTB Neville Bardos at Burghley this year Such is the power and reach of Eventing Nation these days, that as soon as I heard about this  new incentive launched last week by

Team USA is under a lot of pressure to perform well this weekend and for good reason–we are sending five very talented pairs,  each of whom has a great chance to win.  The team is

Unfortunately the weather here today for the trot-up could not have been more uncooperative – a howling wind, rain and temperatures barely in the forties, and so an executive decision was taken to move the

Don’t canter The Pan American Games eventing competition officially started this morning at the Club Hipica with the first horse inspection.  51 horses jogged this morning and 2 didn’t make it through to the dressage. 

Steffen Peters saluting the crowd after his victoryThe red, white, and blue dominated the dressage competition at the Pan American Games from start to finish.  After winning the team competition by a huge margin, the

While John is busy studying his English–Spanish dictionary, I thought I would pass along some information regarding potential TV viewing of the Games.  The schedule below is ESPN’s “full” coverage of the Games…so far, all

While we were enjoying the early rides at the dressage freestyle on Wednesday afternoon I ran into a few familiar faces including Peter Gray, Roger and Ann Haller, and Kyle Carter.  Kyle is coaching Venezuela’s

Hola Eventing Nation and welcome to Guadalajara, Mexico for the Pan American Games!  I’m not sure who regrets the fact that I never took Spanish classes in school more right now–me or the fine folks

Becky, Boyd, and Jan Boyd’s show jumping round with Faye Wolf’s Ying Yang Yo was one of those rides with a few good rubs where it could have been disastrous or perfect depending on how

Apologies to Thomas for cutting off his smiling face, more photos coming soon We’ll have a full recap shortly. [Fair Hill Results] Go Thomas.

There’s no doubt that the Dansko Fair Hill Three-Day Event is a world class international eventing competition.  But, let’s be realistic, the real marquee competition of Fair Hill weekend is the Shetland pony relay race

Photo by Monty White   With three horses in the top ten going into show jumping, it’s not a big surprise that William Fox-Pitt ended up the winner. William and Oslo finished on their dressage

Kylie Lyman and Trading Aces FTW The CCI2* show jumping course at Fair Hill featured big fences and a long track.  There were just 15 double-clear show jumping rounds and only three of the top

Kylie and Trading Aces lead the CCI2* The stage is set for a great day of show jumping here at Fair Hill after this morning’s final horse inspection.  Horses were throwing shoes left and right

Your Fair Hill CCI3* leaders Jan Bynny and Inmidair stormed around the cross-country course at Fair Hill with the third fastest ride of the CCI3* division to move up from 5th into the lead going

Kylie Lyman and Trading Aces galloping into the lead Susan Beebee and Wolf reportedly jumped the intermediate table into the #13AB combination in the arena, then jumped the advanced B element, and then circled back

Diana Burnett was kind enough to take a few moments Friday afternoon to chat with us about a combination on the advanced course that looks (relatively) straightforward, but will be a big challenge tomorrow seeing

I’m not quite sure what happened at Pau; I wish there was a John clone so he could personally cover multiple events simultaneously.  Alas, we are stuck looking at the scoreboard, using our imagination, and

These cross-country courses at Fair Hill are absolutely beautiful thanks to the great work of the volunteers, the builders, and course designer Derek di Grazia.  The courses seem universally liked by the riders and the

Doug Payne won the 5 year old YEH with Royal Tribute, Kelli Temple won the 4 year old with Corneel I mentioned this morning that there were going to be some great dressage rides this